Pier 1 Imports, Inc. (NYSE:PIR) also making a luring appeal, share price swings at $8.15 with percentage change of -4.68% in most recent trading session.

Profitability Valuation

The profit margin can answer significantly to find consistent trends in a firm’s earnings, the Co has positive 1.20% profit margin that indicates every dollar of sales a firm actually keeps in earnings, and the larger number indicates improving and vise worse. Gross profit margin, operating profit margin are its sub parts that firm has 37.80% and 2.40% respectively. Moving toward returns ratio, PIR has returns on investment of 10.60% which indicates firm’s investment efficiency or to compare the efficiency of a number of different investments.

While returns on assets calculated as 2.60% hat gives an idea about how efficient management is at using its assets to generate earnings. It has returns on equity of 8.20%, which is measuring a corporation’s profitability by revealing how much profit generates by PIR with the shareholders’ money. The firm attains analyst recommendation of 3.20 on scale of 1-5 with week’s performance of -6.32%.

Moving toward ratio analysis, it has current ratio of 1.90 and quick ratio was calculated as 0.50. The debt to equity ratio appeared as 0.84 for seeing its liquidity position. The firm attains analyst recommendation of 3.20 out of 1-5 scale with week’s performance of -6.32%.

The Co has positive 11.30% profit margin to find consistent trends in a firm’s earnings. Gross profit margin and operating profit margin are its sub parts that firm have 62.50% and 29.50% respectively. DISCA has returns on investment of 11.20%. The returns on assets was 4.60% that gives an idea about how efficient management is at using its assets to generate earnings. It has returns on equity of 13.70%, which is measuring profitability by disclosing how much profit generates by DISCA with the shareholders’ money.

The firm attains analyst recommendation of 3.30 on scale of 1-5 with week’s performance of -0.29%. The firm current ratio calculated as 1.80, this value is acceptable if it lies in 1.3% to 3%. But its varies industry to industry. To strengthen these views, active industry firm has Quick Ratio of 1.80, which indicates firm has sufficient short-term assets to cover its immediate liabilities. In addition, the firm has debt to equity ratio of 1.54, sometimes its remain same with long term debt to equity ratio.

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